Note 24 — Chapter XIX · Rival Deities of Life and Death, Sunshine and Storm
Reading edition
The goddess unbound her hair, twisted it into bunches, put on her string of five hundred curved jewels (maga-tama, i.e. claw-shaped),24 and armed herself with bow and arrows. She stood “valiantly like unto a mighty man”, and asked her brother why he had ascended. Susa-no-wo declared he had no evil intention, and she asked him to give proof of his sincerity and goodwill. He proposed that they should pledge their faith and produce children. To this she consented, and they “swore to each other from the opposite banks of the Tranquil River of Heaven”.25